The Nation: A Call to Slow the Costly Race

On his Western trip last week, Henry Kissinger hammered out the urgent
message: The alternative to a new SALT deal is an expensive and
wasteful nuclear arms race that will not improve the security of either
nation and might even make a nuclear war more likely.

His talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were intended to wrap
up the broad agreement between President Ford and the Russian leader at
Vladivostok in November 1974 to limit each side to 2,400 long-range
missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry
MIRVsclusters of independently aimed warheads. Kissinger brought home
proposed compromises on...